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Available in both Windows and Linux versions. It is pretty good with stuff that is actually damaged, rather than "deleted" or just generally stiffed in the software. A sort of "lower level forensics approach" to data recovery.

Incidentally, your two messages are NOT the same. The CD one means that the media is not recognised, the usb one means that it has been recognised but cannot be read ( that is much more promising from a data recovery viewpoint )

There is other software that will attempt to recover scrambled data. It might work, but I always use Roadkil's first because it creates an "image"............. just in case the media is progressively deteriorating

OK the downside ( there had to be one, didn't there?)........... because of the way it works, Roadkil's USTCP recovers file by file so you lose the indexing, folders, and such. Can be a real PITA to rebuild, but that is a good way to teach them an object lesson...........

The owner apparently has her whole thesis on the flash disk however it has failed.

The Wolfman has seen this before. One of my cool cats had the same problemo and it ended up being a faulty stick. So what the Wolfman ended up doing was call the manufacturer of the USB D-Vice. They provided the Wolfman with free data recovery similar to the cats at geek-squad and made all my problems disappear.....oh-yeah!

Cider, my man. A quick call or email to the vendor of your Memory stick should tell you if they can recover the data from the stick (for free). The babe I was working with would have had to pay big bucks to get the data back, but instead the Vendor did it for free. (I believe the vendor was SanDisk). Try the programs out there, but if you get frustrated and loose the funk, give the vendor a call.